Tom Allen
Defensive coordinator across 4 programs, 4 stints, before and after wearing the head-coach hat — every season measured on the same axis, whether he personally ran the unit or someone else did.
Tom Allen
Tom Allen moved Indiana from Regional Program II to National Program III in 8 seasons.
Career arc
His real stature score, season by season, across every program he’s coached — so a stretch that stays in one tier the whole way can still climb or sink on the line, not just flatten out. Node color marks the tier reached. Which program a stretch belongs to is carried by the shaded lane behind it.
Reached National Program in his 4th career season — faster than 19% of the 675 FBS coaches who have ever reached National Program (rank #505 of 675 by seasons-to-arrival).
Style position and drift
Where each stint’s offense sat between run-first and pass-first, and how far it moved from one season to the next. The band is that stint’s real season-to-season range, not a fixed-width box.
Season-to-season pass-rate range for all 258 FBS coaching stints with at least three covered seasons, 2014–2025.
The big-game ledger
How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.
1–4 against his rivals. Just 1–4 against Jeff Brohm.
Coaching career
4th-best Indiana tenure of 16 by the numbers.
Underperforms his recruiting talent on offense and performs about as expected for his recruiting talent on defense.
Succeeded by Curt Cignetti (2024–2026).
| Season | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||||||||
| Record | 6–6 | 5–7 | 5–7 | 8–5 | 6–2 | 2–10 | 4–8 | 3–9 | |
| Postseason | L bowl | — | — | L bowl | L bowl | — | — | — | |
| Recruiting rank | #53 | #62 | #50 | #36 | #58 | #54 | #26 | #69 | |
| Style — pass rate | |||||||||
| Pass rate | 46.1 | 52.8 | 52.9 | 50.3 | 51.5 | 47.7 | 54.9 | 45.8 | |
| Coordinators | |||||||||
| OC | Kevin Johns | Mike DeBord | Mike DeBord | Kalen DeBoer | Grant Heard / Nick Sheridan | Grant Heard / Nick Sheridan | Walt Bell / Adam Henry | Walt Bell | |
| DC | Tom Allen | Mark Hagen | Mark Hagen | Kane Wommack | Kane Wommack / Kevin Peoples | Charlton Warren / Kevin Peoples | Chad Wilt | Chad Wilt / Matt Guerrieri | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||||||||
| Offense | 23 | 39 | 30 | 56 | 26 | 3 | 11 | 39 | |
| Defense | 71 | 72 | 32 | 67 | 83 | 28 | 26 | 14 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script (2021+ only) | |||||||||
| 1st-down pass% | 38.3 | 47.4 | 46.5 | 47.7 | 47.1 | 48.7 | 59.5 | 44.9 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 30.7 | 52.8 | 51.9 | 41.2 | 41.8 | 38.3 | 54.4 | 29.6 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 40.0 | 26.1 | 39.6 | 21.6 | 31.8 | 32.3 | 32.7 | 45.5 | |
A typical amount of portal roster-building.
Brings in bigger-than-position-typical players than most.
Recruits older, more experienced transfers than most.
10 NFL Draft picks: Jason Spriggs (2016), Jordan Howard (2016), Nate Sudfeld (2016), Dan Feeney (2017), Ian Thomas (2018), Chris Covington (2018), Wes Martin (2019), Simon Stepaniak (2020) + 2 more
Coach of the Year: Big Ten Dave McClain Coach of the Year (Media)/Big Ten Hayes-Schembechler Coach of the Year (Coaches) (2020)
2 player-seasons honored (All-America / national award): Tiawan Mullen (2020), Jaylin Lucas (2022)